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Lady Brett Ashley
fictional character
Lady Brett Ashley, fictional character, one of the principal characters of Ernest Hemingway’s novel The Sun Also Rises (1926). An expatriate Englishwoman in Paris during the 1920s, she is typical of the Lost Generation of men and women whose lives have no focus or meaning and who therefore wander aimlessly from one party to another. Unable to consummate her love for American newspaperman Jake Barnes because of his war injury, Brett has affairs with many others, including the American expatriate Robert Cohn and the handsome young bullfighter Pedro Romero.
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